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This is the heartbreaking moment a brave domestic abuse victim sings about her near-death experience - after she claims her boyfriend brutally beat her for over 10 hours.

Darrian Amaker made the brave decision to film herself as she sat in her hospital bed just days after her terrifying ordeal .

In the clip, Darrian's face is clearly bruised around her eyes and her mouth as she sings the poignant song with lyrics including: "She recalls the night she left him after his drunk attack... she never once looked back."

Alongside the video, Darrian posted a heartbreaking Facebook post to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence , writing: "A few days after Thanksgiving this past year, my Love went straight psychotic and beat me brutally for ten hours.

Brave: Darrian sings in her hospital bed just days after being brutally beaten by her boyfriend (Photo: YouTube)

"He had planned it out; I was supposed to die. I survived or escaped, whatever you want to call it, and spent four days in the hospital, eyes swollen shut, wondering why, wondering why."

She added: "I am physically safe now; my Love-no-longer has been formally charged by a grand jury with six felonies and faces many years as a prisoner.

"I asked my doctor why I look different in the mirror, assuming it's a psychological consequence of savagery. Softly she remarked that all of my bones are bruised, quarter-inch ridges that I can feel - my face is different, it's one-half inch wider now."

Since being uploaded to Facebook, the video has had several thousand views, with plenty of people offering their support to Darrian.

Injured: Darrian almost died after being beaten by her boyfriend for more than 10 hours (Photo: YouTube)

Explaining the thought process behind her video, Darrian said: "I don't generally record videos of myself but it was the only thing I wanted to do in the hospital.

"I insisted - it felt important and a small triumph to make something, salvage anything from my shipwrecked heart."

Before signing off, Darrian added: "Domestic violence is not a faraway issue.

"It affects people you know, cheerful people, people who sing, people who love. We the humans must be better, kinder, stronger. We the loving must not tolerate abuse. We the living must facilitate life."